a quiet weekend

On Saturday morning, I worked on the photos from the shoot I had on Friday. And in the afternoon, we went out and did yard work. While Tim and I did yard work, the girls emptied out their pumpkins and drew sketches of what they wanted Dad to carve. I think Tim did a great job.

C took sewing lessons during the summer but I have not done a good job of recording her work. She has made a pillow case, a table runner, and chenille heart where she made all the seams for the chenille stripes. This week, she made a bib for a friend from church who recently had a baby.

This is a simple bib using half a hand towel and half a bandana. When she was cutting she nicked the bandana so we added a patch with a button.

K made this card for Lydia. It is from Robert Sabuda.com He has a bunch of tutorials for simple pop-ups. We've made a couple of them.

 

I let the girls use one of the gift boxes I make to give the gift in. We gave it to Lydia Sunday morning. She seemed quite pleased. 

For church, I braided C's hair in a French Braid where you only add hair to one side of the braid (of course you really can't see it here but I like this photo).

For K, I made this 'net' of hair. I know I've seen it on people but I actually got the idea and figured it out by looking at a horse's mane when we were at the Renaissance Festival.

I Am Featured at Scene of Sublime

My batik pillows are being featured by Lauri at Scene of Sublime.

little red riding hood tames the wolf - last minute costumes

The girls plan to attend our church's Pumpkin Patch Party next Monday but they were invited to wear costumes to Kid's Club tonight. I didn't think C's costume would hold up to two wearings so this is what we came up with.

What I didn't make very apparent in these photos is that Red has the wolf on a leash made of twine.

I forgot how good pigtail braids look on C.

K is a vicious wolf.

She even carries Granny's flowers for Red.

Now I realize that not everyone just happens to have a lovely red wool cape (I'm odd that way) or a picnic blanket complete with ants, or doggie ears...but if you have all those items - this was quick and easy to pull together and I think very fun and winsome.

from husband's discarded shirts to cool batik pillows

This is a seriously fun craft. The girls have been batiking too but their projects aren't ready to share yet.

These are done using a blue glue batik method. The brilliant Gail at that artist woman has a tutorial for how to use this technique. I actually created the tree batik first and used a clear washable glue - there definite problems with the clear glue but it still turned out quite striking.

The first time I created the denim snowflake I used all blue paints and you couldn't really see the snowflake. I just reglued the snowflake and painted over the previous one.

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seasonally challenged

I've decided that I am seasonally challenged. I don't necessarily craft for the season I am. So here is one for anyone who wants a craft to do on St Patrick's day.

I love C's leprechaun. It is adorable, don't you think?

This is a mixed media piece that includes melted crayons. This will probably be our last melted crayon piece for awhile. In order to slightly contain the spill of the rainbow, I masked off the rest of the picture with removable contact paper. As you can tell there was still seepage, I didn't mind that as long as the basic idea of a rainbow stayed intact.

We used cotton for the clouds and gold buttons for the pile of gold. The girls drew their leprechauns separately, cut them out and then glued them to their picture.

I love the intense color of melted crayons!!

Just in case you think we don't know Roy G. Biv and the colors of the rainbow we do. However, the colors blue, indigo, and violet are too hard to do well with crayons so we did blue, pink, and violet just to make the colors look nicer.

we went to the pumpkin patch with some good friends this weekend.

solar flares, brilliant sunshine, and a bald eagle (cooperative art)

This is a crayon piece that all three of us worked on together.

We glued the crayons and then heated them. Then we painted the canvas. I would reverse the procedure now - but when we were doing this, I wasn't sure what we were going to do so I wanted to leave our options open. The nice thing about painting over crayon is that it wipes right off. K drew our eagle on a separate piece of paper, I cut it out for her and then we glued it on.

straw weaving

We found this weaving technique at Home Ed Groups via Pinterest.It uses drinking straws for the loom (not sure if that is the correct term or not).

C made herself a bracelet. K did not have the patience or attention span to weave today. I made myself a hairband, which K graciously modeled. It is very comfy and I am wearing it right now.

I have some ideas about different things we could do using this technique that I am anxious to try.

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